Editorial:
From ABC News [1]:
As 25,000 global experts descend on Washington, D.C., this week for the first International AIDS Conference in the United States in 22 years, they face some sobering statistics: 3 percent of all residents in the nation's capital are infected with the HIV virus.
And with 7 percent of all black males HIV-positive, the city has a higher infection rate than African countries like Ethiopia, Nigeria and Rwanda.
The world might be winning the war on AIDS -- 2.7 million had HIV in 2010, down from 3.2 million a decade earlier -- according to UNAIDS [2], but the United States, alongside Eastern Europe, still sees new infections.
Nearly 1.2 million Americans are now living with HIV/AIDS, an all-time high, with nearly 50,000 new infections every year, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. [3]
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Source:
ABC News
URL:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/hivaids-infection-rates-rise-us-rare-conference-opens/story?id=16831699#.UBKeHWFfHll
Date:
July 27, 2012
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